She is set to make her debut with "Dhadak", the Hindi adaptation of critically-acclaimed Marathi film "Sairat" that explored the themes of caste divide and honour killing, and Janhvi Kapoor says the movie is a cut above mainstream Bollywood which has mostly "glorified" the conflict. Janhvi, daughter of late actor Sridevi, says the Shashank Khaitan-directed film, in which she plays a girl belonging to the erstwhile royal family based in Udaipur, is set against the backdrop of class divide. Janhvi, 21, says "Dhadak" is not a typical Bollywood saga that whitewashes the "harsh reality" that is still relevant. "... I feel up until this point, a lot of films in mainstream Bollywood have glorified that divide. Because it creates a sort of conflict - that 'I can't live without the love of my life'. I feel they have glorified that divide a little bit. "But I think, it should be condemned and with 'Dhadak', we have set out to condemn it. That it's a harsh reality. 'Dhadak' is not a Bollywood ...

From the time last year, when Katrina Kaif celebrated her birthday, things couldn't have become worse. Her love life was in a shambles with her relationship with Ranbir Kapoor coming to an end and her career, which had been put on hold for love, was going nowhere.

He has given one of the biggest hits of 2017 to Bollywood in the form of "Humsafar" and has taken the maximum awards for the song featured in "Badrinath Ki Dulhania" but singer Akhil Sachdeva says that he still has to struggle every day in Bollywood.

In India, people do not focus on grooming musicians professionally, says popular Bollywood music director Pritam, who will soon be seen judging the second season of music reality television show "Dil Hai Hindustani".

It was a night full of dance, music, glitz and glamour as Bollywood personalities like Pritam Chakraborty, Nushrat Bharucha and Mouni Roy lit up the stage with their electrifying performance at the much-awaited IIFA Rocks event at the Siam Niramit theatre here on Friday.

Bollywood star Anil Kapoor has revealed that there was a time when he thought the International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA) was "totally rigged."While speaking to the media ahead of IIFA Rocks, he said, "The first IIFA was in London. I was nominated for two films and of course, I said no, I cannot come. I thought these awards are totally rigged and I'm not going to come. (I thought) If I don't go obviously they are not going to give me the award.""So the opposite happened, I wasn't there I missed it and I (still) won two awards," added the 61-year-old star.Appreciating the IIFA's honesty and integrity, he said that in the 19-year-long association with this event, he only saw the Indian film industry being promoted far and beyond."IIFA stands for honesty, integrity, celebration, and (I know) what IIFA has done to the Indian film industry. There are a lot of filmmakers, lot of directors; lot of actors who have contributed to spreading the Indian film industry, the Bollywood film ..

Singer Shilpa Rao, who has sung a single "Saanwariya" for Drishyam Play -- an initiative to curate and promote fresh music from different parts of the country -- feels the layman associates Bollywood songs with Indian music. She says that's a myth that needs to be broken.

Bollywood, If I may, has been the advocate of so many things bad that I have honestly lost the count. Apart from the hero-worshiping scripts, large scale pay-gap and an undocumented unprofessionalism, the industry that churns out more movies than most is infamous for its sexist standards and how! And by how I mean with full-fledged item numbers that are loaded with insinuations that does women no good other than making them suitable for the male gaze (read objectification). But India hai, sab chalta hai! And when I say chalta hai, I mean songs that will make you wonder–who must have penned ...

Kushal Tandon and Karishma Sharma make for an electric couple. This was very much evident when they came to our office for an interview. The two share a warm camaraderie and do not hesitate from pulling each other's legs. So, it was a lot of fun to play a few games with them. So, we decided to make them act like a real life couple and react on some situations. We gave them some of the awkward moments that every couple experience and they were sporting enough to act it out. Talking about their chemistry in Hum – I am because of Us, Karishma said, "We got along like a house on fire. It was a ...